memphisjason wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 5:12 pm
This morning, my wife got out of bed a little before 7. As you can see, my apneas seem to go away for the next few hours. What could be the reason for this?
The simplest reason might be a change in sleeping position.
Do you still have a copy of your diagnostic sleep test? If so, do you know whether your apnea is significantly worse when sleeping on your back? Is it significantly worse in REM sleep?
You also write:
Early last year my OSA was well controlled around 12 PSI. I verified this with the AutoPAP setting it between 12-14 and it rarely raised. I've been having a flair up in my fatigue over the past couple of months and I sleep 12-13 hrs/night. I've started paying more attention to my data since the OSA seems to have worsened. I turned up the pressure a bit to see how I responded.
Given the mess of events on the night you posted, it's no surprise to say that your treated apnea appears to be worse (possibly much worse) than it was a year ago. If this were my data and I was sleeping 12+ hours on most nights, I'd be trying to get the sleep doc to authorize a sleep test
with an APAP at the current settings just to see what's going on. Or perhaps a new in-lab titration study might be warranted. (Getting insurance to pay for it is a whole different ball of wax.)
In terms of self-help: If you are comfortable with the idea, you could try increasing your
minimum pressure setting to 15.5 and setting the max pressure at 20 cm for a few nights just to see what happens in terms of trying to break up those clusters of events that kept happening between 3:00 and 7:00 on this night.
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